Michael Conway

With no Under 16 games in the Ards section this week, the focus was on the mainland teams with the league tables now beginning to take shape. In the East Down section, Liatroim and Bredagh head the table following their away derby victories over Castlewellan and Carryduff respectively. Liatroim won a high scoring game against their near neighbours with impressive displays from Brian Owens and Paul Mc Aleenan. Castlewellan put up a determined performance with Brian Mc Cann, David Morgan, Aidan and Martin Keown starring for the town side. In the North Down derby, played in atrocious, Bredagh always had the upper hand with Eoin Costello and Mark Devlin in excellent form. For Carryduff, Darragh Goodwin, Paddy Craig and Daniel Austin played well in defence while Carryduff’s scorers Darragh Brownlee and Gary Morris were the pick of their attack.

Bredagh have a bye in next week’s series and so Liatroim will be keen to extend their league lead when they take on visiting Carryduff. Kilclief play host to Castlewellan and should keep in touch with the leaders with a home victory.

Meanwhile in South Down, Warrenpoint and Ballela are setting the pace. Both had convincing wins in last week’s series with Shamrocks going under to Warrenpoint while Clonduff were no match for the visiting Ballela side. The crunch match in this section comes next Friday when Warrenpoint travel to meet the West Down men. Ballyvarley take on Clonduff also on Friday.